Ingredients
Method
Blondies
- Turn on the oven to 350°farenheit, and grease a 9x13 inch baking dish, add parchment paper to the pan so that the extra paper hangs off the sides.
- In a mixer, add butter, and brown and white sugar. Mix 3-5 min until fluffy and white.
- Add eggs in one at a time, waiting until each egg is fully incorporated until adding an additional egg.
- Add in the milk powder and vanilla. Mix until blended, scrape the bowl and mix again for another 30 seconds to 1 minute.
Dry Ingredients
- Add flour, salt, and baking soda in a separate bowl and whisk them together until well combined.
- Slowly add about ⅓ of the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, and mix until just incorporated.
- Repeat previous step two more times until all the dry ingredients are incorporated into the wet ones.
- Scrape the bowl and mix for about 30 more seconds.
- Scoop batter into the parchment paper lined greased 9x13 pan.
- Bake for 45 minutes, check to see if done but looking for browning on the edges and a tooth pick inserted will come out clean. Do not overbake.
- Take out and allow to cool 30 min to 1 hour.
Espresso Caramel
- Add 3 tbsp of espresso powder to the heavy cream and heat for 30 seconds so that the cream is room temp.
- Stir the cream until well combined. (Set Aside.)
- In a medium sized pan, turn on the heat to medium high pour 1 cup of granulated sugar.
- Stay close to the pan as you stir with a heat safe spoon, watch closely as the sugar melts. Keep stirring all the while so that it doesn't burn.
- Once all the sugar is melted add the butter 1 tbsp. at a time and whisk slowly until combined, it will seem separated at this point, and that is normal.
- Slowly, slowly add the espresso cream, whisking all the while.
- The caramel will steam and bubble up, you may need to take it off the heat while you add the cream.
- Stir the cream into the caramel until it is fully incorporated.
- Add it back to the low heat if you took it off, and allow it to cook for an additional 1- 2 min while stirring.
- Add the salt, and stir it in .
- Pour into a heat safe container, and allow to cool
Putting it together
- Take the cooled blondes, and spread the cooled caramel over the top.
- Cut the blondies in squares and place a candied pecan on the top of each.
- Sprinkle with a pinch of salt.
- Enjoy!